Mark A. Verber

I am
a technologist with extensive business expertise. I am comfortable doing a
ground up design of a new service or pitching ROI to CxO. I have a rare
combination of technology understanding, business focus, and communication
capabilities allows me to work with a broad range of people across
organizations.

I enjoy creation: organizations, products, and services. I am able to see
from the customers' perspectives, to communicate with and translate between
business people and technology experts. I ship the right products, deploy the
right services, and help the team enjoy the process. I am skilled at estimated
schedules. I have experience managing complex projects through their entire
life-cycle and know how and when to apply quality management and improvement
processes.

I love people. I am an effective coach and mentor. I am a peacemaker and
highly effective and forging consensus among parties with very different
perspectives. I have built high performance team for twenty years where the
results exceed expectations set by individual capabilities.

I am a systems thinker and have keen insight into inter-relationships in
complex systems. My systems perspective effects everything I do, from the
architecting of complex services to how to build teams of people. I have a solid
track record of building useful services which are significantly less expensive
than what is suggested by current "best practices". In a period of less than
three years I build from scratch a service which delivered 99.995% availability
which was constructed out of cheap commodity parts.

I am technology savvy and have a practitioner's knowledge. I have twenty
years of experience programming for a wide variety of platforms using numerous
programming languages including POSIX, Win32, Macintosh OS version 1-8,
BSD-style sockets, Sun RPC, ILU, and DCE 1.0 RPC. I have considerable experience
dealing with large scale enterprise issues. I am very aware of security issues,
having been responsible for security initiative for the last fifteen years
designing and implementing network firewalls using both packet filtering and
protocol specific proxies; securing UNIX bastion hosts; deploying
cryptographically strong systems including Kerberos, token cards, micro payment
services, and VPNs.

Work Experience

07/11 to 01/12; Sr. Director Data & Architecture, SimplyHired

12/08 to 06/11; Director of Information Technology, Stanford
University School of Engineering (SOE)